Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-06-22
w.w.COOk was at Anthony this week.


Frank Strong is about laid up with a
cold.
w. W. Standiford is now the owner
OF fast PAGER.
ii. NJ. Buck has put q new fence
around his place.
A full line of paints and oils, at South
worth's drug store. Al
Buy your fresh meats at Mobiles, in
the gypsum building. AZ
c. ii. Douglass and wife were down
from Sun City yesterday.
Arther Sparks is working on the ca
bic car road in Kansas City.
Col. Brand has moved with his fami-
ly into the Eli Smith house.
New stock of trunks and valises, and
prices the lowest, at Il. X. Herring
toms. 2t2
An elegant line Of summer suits for
men, at StandifOrd, Youmans s Ell
dred's. so
Several towns in this county claim
that they will have a grand" Fourth
of July.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
LIST National bank. a,
The ladies of the NJ. E. aid society
will give festival tomorrow, Thurs
day evening, June 23rd.
Summer dress goodsl summer notions!
summer shoes! summer bargainsl at
Standiford, Youmans s. Eldred's. 81
Reed and rattan rockers, baby car
riages, boys wagons and car load of
new furniture at RiGg s. Johnson's this
week. /
What has become of Doc Kessler |?
He must be dead, for ne promised us
that if he was alive on the first of the
month that he would pay small bill
he owes this Office.
Noble s. Nixon have a second hand
Nlchals, Shepard & Co., Vibrator Sep
arator. nearly new, which they will sell
at very low figure. ga
L. F. Pearson & Co., last week sold
$50 acres, seven miles northeast of
town, for Abrams & Patterson, of
Pennsylvania, to James Cooley, of Cass
Co. Mo.
The most interesting fight that will
come before the republican convention
will be that for register. Shannon,
Ingraham and Shelley are all red hot
even now, and the fight has just COM
menced.
F. III. Shelley has six fast horses on
his track at Kiowa. Joe, the Chaplin
horse, is earning a record below thirty.
Southworth's horse is getting away
under anything be ever did before.
The Cattell colt, Wonder, Is also doing
some nice work.
The one hundred and eleventh BIRTH
day of American indepen( ence will be
celebrated at Deerhead i'm great shape
and with eclat, the bills say. A CON-
mittee composed of w. A. Clinkscales,
j. d. Fleming, Z. G. Blake and w. o.
Head, have the affair in charge.
The Lincoln Il Adams ranch of 1870
acres in the western part of this coun-
ty, near Deerhead, was sold last week
to Geo. Z. Ford, of Fort Scott, Kansas,
for $40 per acre, or SO, 800. The cattle,
horses and ranch outfit were sold. to-
same party for $4,000. Mr.. G. c. Ford,
brother Of the purchaser, came down
last Saturday to take charge of the
ranch. lie is young man who will
make-a good citizen, and it is to be
hoped that he will make this his per-
manent home.
There are frequent complaints made
to this Office about the irregularity with
which the INDEX is distributed at sew
eral postoffices in the county. We want
to say right here and now that there
will be some vacancies in the postoffices
complained of, in very short time, I'M
less there Is some improvement IN the
service. We don't send our paper out
for fun, but because we are paid for the
work. A failure to properly distribute
our papers is gross neglect of duty,
and a serious interference with our
business. "A word to the wise is suT-
icient."
Sheriff Wallace Kelley, of Wilson
county, Kansas, came here last Thurs
day, with warrant for the arrest OF
IL. G. DOwell, of Montgomery county,
charged with stealing a carload of cat
tie, and forging an order at Fredonia,
in Wilson county, last August. Kelley
and Deputy Sheriff Lee Bradley went
over into COmanche county on Friday,
and captured their man, and on Friday,
after travelling 80 miles, IN less than "A
hours, Mr.. Bradley and his man APP
peared in town. Mr.. Kelley took his
man west on the 10 o'clock freight
Saturday morning.
Judge McCanless was at Wichita
this week, and now he is prepared to
declare that the half has not been told
of that wonderful city. He was one of
the earliest settlers of Wichita; was its
first postmaster and first justice OF the
peace. He says that he did not have to
walk block while in the city, a car
rage being in waiting at his every
command. He declares that he was Of
fered four hundred keys during his stay
though he does not know what they
were for. A corner-lot that he used to
own and offered for Texas pony, was
sold for $4,000 while he was there.
and yet he has not lost confidence in
Medicine Lodge.
There was an election of trustees and
officers at the Christian church last
Sunday morning, at the close of the
roOular mOrninO earvipoa Tho hoo ri